Thread: Ideas for Middle Eastern mezze, or Spanish tapas?

I've been hankering after a meal like this for aaaages, all spread out on the coffee table in front of a movie...

So far for mezze I've thought of the following:

Houmous (with a fraction of olive oil and tahini but would entail some syns)
Felafels
Smash coated chunks of aubergine and courgette roasted in oven
Tsatsiki using 0% Total Greek Yoghurt
Aubergine "baba ganoush" (with a fraction of olive oil and tahini but would entail some syns)

Tapas:

Albondigas (meatballs in tomato sauce)
Squid rings done in smash
Tortilla
Er.....

Help :-D

Patatas Bravas would fit in well. Also for flavour I think chorizo is well worth the syns, maybe in the tortilla?

Yum, yes chorizo is gorge. Patatas bravas - genius thanks Liberty.

I wonder if you could make your own taramasalata,

then some grilled hallumi cheese, stuffed vine leaves, mini kebabs of meat, spicy prawns

oooh yeah - all looks good - wonder how much halloumi you get for HEA? (let's face it this would be syns by the end of it).

Another thing I love is feta baked in foil with honey and thyme. Nom.

I wonder about making vine leaves... the ones you buy here are SO oily...

Originally Posted by book_lover

I wonder about making vine leaves... the ones you buy here are SO oily...

You could just use cabbage leaves and make the filling yourself.

yes! I have plenty of those in the garden :-)

a mezze ive had when in turkey is nice, it is a tomato one with onions, red peppers in i reckon itll have some oil in there too but really, its just like a red salsa that loads of people make on here. so you could do a syn free version of that?